Paris, 1st Feb. I am pleased to announce the availability of Nessus 990201. Nessus is a security scanner released under the GPL, the full description of which has already been posted on this list several months ago, so I will not redescribe it once more in order to save everyone's bandwith. This new version includes : - more than 180 security checks - a ciphered communication layer between the server and the client (yes, this scanner is made up of a server, in charge of the tests, and a client which is the frontend of the product) - GTK 1.1 compatibility for the traditional Unix client. For those who do not like the X11 client, a perl client has written by Jochen Wiedmann <joeat_private>. The Unix version of Nessus currently compiles under : - Linux (glibc and libc) - FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD - Solaris 2.6 It was also reported to compile under IRIX with gcc, but its runtime behavior could not be tested under this environment. You can download Nessus at : http://www.nessus.org/download/unix.html The perl client is available at : ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/authors/id/JWIED The archive name being : Net-Nessus-0.04.tar.gz The Nessus website contains pointers to the Nessus mailing list and FAQ -- be sure to check them out. In the hope that this tool will be helpful to some people around here, -- Renaud Deraison ps : Nessus is totally free -- there is no company behind it, and the download page is advertisement free, at the opposite of some others so-called "free" security scanners.
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